Cultural Weekly’s Associate Poetry Editor “Mish” (Eileen Murphy) recently caught up with Italian translator-poet-editor-biographer-visual artist Alessandra Bava—to find out how Alessandra “does it all”: * Mish (Eileen Murphy): Your work first came to my attention on Instagram, where I loved the photos you posted of your home city, Rome. I am reminded that the great …
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Love Letter to Anne Sexton # 2 I say: “It’ll be romance gone wrong.” “I can take it,” you answer. I say “I’m older than you now, but not as wise.” You shake your head, reject the wisdom of the pill, elude the cure. “I bleed all the time,” you add. I know that it’s …
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It has been over three weeks that here in Italy the government decided to put the country under lock down in order to avoid the further spreading of the Covid-19 virus, which has hit our country hard. Except for people whose work is deemed essential, the rest of the population is quarantined at home. As …
2019 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize Finalist, selected by judge Tanya Ko Hong Maybe I am biased, but I like this poem because it uses Spanish as well as English in the piece. Creating a multilingual experience opens a whole other part of the mind, soul, and heart. Saying and reading unfamiliar words out loud creates …
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Alessandra Bava lives and works in the Eternal city. She holds an MA in American Literature and she manages her own translation agency. She is the author of two bilingual chapbooks NOCTURNE (Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, 2013) and GUERRILLA BLUES (Edizioni Ensemble, 2012) both published in Italy. Her first US published chapbook, THEY TALK ABOUT DEATH, is …
Dr. K. A. Laity, author of White Rabbit and creator (along with cartoonist Elena Steier) of the occult detective novel Jane Quiet, interviews poet Alessandra Bava. After reading this interview, please enjoy five works of poetry from Alessandra Bava by clicking HERE. *** KL: There’s an urgency in the poems that seems haunted by dread. …
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